The story of real paper started in what is now the People's Republic of China. Like the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly fifty centuries ago, created a style of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians also had been utilizing many different types of things to scribe upon, most commonly lengths of bamboo and woven silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they made for other reasons from the Paper. Mulberry was also used.
History leads us to believe that in 105AD a member of the government named Tsai Lung, brought out papyrus, although it is almost certain from archaeological finds that actually it was in existence in China for at least two hundred years prior to him.
Back during times gone by setting down words was mainly done on bamboo or on strips of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. Nonetheless the soaring cost of silk and bamboo being very heavy, these materials were inconvenient. Due to this Tsai Lun thought of making use of bark from trees, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he delivered a report to the emperor about the process of paper making and got high praise for his creativity. Since that time paper has been used all over the world and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed the above title is Tsai's entitlement or not, will very likely never be known! But the important thing is that the discovery was made that if they ground some substances taken from plant matter in to a mache, depose impure materials, place the mache in water, screen it onto fabric sheets giving it enough time to dry out. After the drying process was complete, it conglomerated into a hard, tenacious sheet that turned out to be particularly light, and provided that it was not allowed to get damp, proved surprisingly resilient.
It's a fact that this simple of papermaking technologies is even now still being used in exactly the same way around Nepal and Tibet, the very first regions to learn the craft from South East Asia. A simple frame has a kind of cotton cloth stretched over one side, very watery paste is situated into the opposite end and spread about until it has reached an even state. Then it is left suspended in order for it to enable the liquid to drain and the pulp to dry in to a sheet of paper which may be removed by stripping off.
As time passed a developer with great skills came to the conclusion that making a frame with an arrangement of ribbing and putting in place a delicate removable bamboo mat across this, would let the paper-making procedure to be quickened to a great degree. Instead of utilizing one mold for every sheet of parchment, severely restricting the amount of sheets that are able to be produced at one time, a stack of sieved mush was able to be built up layer upon layer, with merely a strip of cotton thread between them in order to help with later separation. The stack would then be squeezed lightly, and each sheet of grume shifted to a dry place.